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Shalom Dov Wolpo

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “prominent religious author and political activist in israel and a chabad-lubavitch rabbi”. Today it says “rabbi and an israeli political activist”.
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Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , ( Hebrew : שלום דוב וולפא ; born February 21, 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group— SOS Israel —an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha . Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel . He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank . Goldberg , he has raised funds to assist families of Jewish terrorists and called for courts to pass a sentence with a death penalty on a number of Israeli politicians such as Ehud Olmert , Ehud Barak , and Tzipi Livni . Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English. Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset . Ynetnews 15 December 2008 "Rabbi threatens secession from Israel" .

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prominent religious author and political activist in israel and a chabad-lubavitch rabbi

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rabbi and an israeli political activist

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